10 Gourdes

By 1967, Haiti's currency had been under sustained pressure for over a decade — the Duvalier government's fiscal mismanagement and reliance on money creation had eroded confidence in the gourde considerably. Thomas De La Rue's involvement as printer was common for Haitian notes of this period; the BNRH consistently contracted London commercial security printers rather than developing domestic capacity.

The P#193 series is not particularly scarce, but circulated examples frequently show heavy soiling along the vertical fold lines — a consequence of how gourdes were typically stored and handled in rural Haiti during this period.